Education: Report Card

¶ London's Tory newspapers happily noted last week that the old school
tie had come into its own again in Britain. In the outgoing Labor
cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or
Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston
Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton,
Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab.

¶ The University of
Minnesota was in an uproar over a faculty ban on broadcasting the
address of a speaker invited by the Student Republican Club. The
speaker: Wisconsin's Red-hunting Senator Joseph...